PlusAI

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer, Applied ML & Data Mining

PlusAI · Santa Clara, CA
Santa Clara, CA $130K–$220K Posted 2026-07-31
Salary
$130K–$220K
Type
Full-time
Experience
5+ yr

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Hands-on experience developing and evaluating machine-learning, data-mining, computer-vision, or information-retrieval methods with a framework such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, including experimentation, error analysis, and principled metrics

Foundations for data-centric machine learning: an understanding of model uncertainty and evaluation, embeddings and similarity search, and how training-data composition shapes model behavior

Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership: a quick learner who is eager to take responsibility and drive projects forward end to end

Production full-stack experience spanning backend services and REST APIs, relational data modeling and SQL, and modern JavaScript or TypeScript frontend development using React or a comparable framework

Experience improving models through data — training or fine-tuning, active learning and data flywheels, hard-example mining, uncertainty or disagreement signals, dataset curation — ideally in autonomous driving, robotics, or perception

Experience with embedding and multimodal models (CLIP-style models, VLMs), vector databases (Milvus, FAISS, pgvector), or GPU batch inference at scale

PyTorchTensorFlowJavaScriptTypeScriptReact
$110K — 10th pctl $265K — 90th pctl
This role’s midpoint $175K vs. market median $180K for Engineering roles
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